Ironing-table.



P. J. MULDOON.

IRONING TABLE.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 28, 1912.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.

i t: VVvVM STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK J. MULDOON, OF WEST BEND, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OEONE-HALF T0 HENRY.LOGHEN, OF WEST BEND, WISCONSIN.

IBONINGr-TABLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914.

Application filed September 28, 1912. Serial No. 722,895.

To all whom it may concern:

citizen of the United States, and resident.

of West Bend, in the county of lVashington and State of Wisconsin, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Tables; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth withreference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim ofthis specification, its object being to provide simple, economical andeflicient anti-marring clamping mechanism in connection withironing-tables for detachable connection with other tables, shelves orthe like, said mechanism having certain advantageous features ofconstruction.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a side elevation of one of myimproved ironing-tables partly broken away and set up in detachableconnection with another table; Fig. 2, a plan view of the same partlybroken away, this view being indicated by line 22 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, asection View of a detail of the ironing-table indicated by line 33 inFig. 1, and Fig. 4, a detail inverted plan view of an iron-holderattachment of said ironing-table partly in horizontal section on theplane indicated by line 4-4111 Fig. 1.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 5 indicates a board thatconstitutes the top of my improved table especially designed tofacilitate the ironing of skirts and sleeves, the board being narrowedat one end to form a sleeve-holder 5. The other end of the board isprovided with a central longitudinal slot 6, for the reception of a leg7 pivotally arranged between a pair of parallel strips 8 securedlongitudinally to the underside of said board to which they impartrigidity, the pivot being preferably a bolt 9 having a nut 10 runthereon against a washer.

The leg 7 is provided with a longitudinal slot 11 adjacent to what isits upper end when the table is set up, and extending through this slotis a carriage bolt 12 having the angular portion thereof, adjacent toits head, engaged with a corresponding opening in a clamping-shell 13for which it constitutes a shank, the shell being elliptical orotherwise curvilinear in cross-section. The shell is non-rotary on thebolt and at right angles to the leg 7 and said shell is provided with anunder clearance aperture for the bolt-head. It is also preferablycovered with rubber, felt or other anti-marring material 14c, and theupper side of the slotted broad end of the board 5 is also preferablyfaced with similar material 15. Run on the screw-threaded outer end ofthe bolt 12 against a washer 16, opposing the leg 7, is a thumb-nut l7,and by the adjustment of said bolt in the slot 11 the angle of the leg 7\vith reference to the height of a table 18,

shelf or other support for the ironing table 18 determined, said supportbeing caught between the board 5 and clamping shell 13.

Extending through the leg 7 outward from its slot 11, is a preferablycollared pivot-pin 19 for arms 20 of an iron-holder 21 having a leg 22that rests upon the leg aforesaid when said holder is in workingposition, as shown in Fig. 1. The iron holder is preferably a sheet ofmetal suitably slitted to provide its arms 20 and leg 22 that are bentout therefrom, as shown, the free ends of said armsbeing turned to formpivot-pin eyes and said leg suitably bent. WVhen not in use theiron-holder is swung back on the pivot-pin 19 out of the way, and whenthe table is folded its leg 7 is parallel to the board 5 between thestrips 8 thereon.

My improved ironing-table has a very tight anti-marring grip upon thetable 18 or other support and is not liable to lateral play, while atthe same time the board thereof is very rigid outward from the piV- otalleg, the position of said leg, when said table is in use, being such asto aiford ample clearance for a skirt being ironed upon said board.

I claim:

In a folding ironing-table of the type comprising a board and a pivotalcenter leg which leg extends obliquely above the board when the table isset up, the combination with the leg of a bolt extending through alongitudinal slot of the same adjacent to said end thereof, aclamping-nut on the outer end of the bolt, and a shell non-roin thecounty of Washington and State of tary on said bolt under said leg atright- Visconsin in the presence of two witnesses. angles thereto, theshell being curvilinear incross-section and provided with an under FRANKMULDOON' 5 clearance aperture for the head of said bolt. Witnesses:

In testimony that 'I claim the foregoing I OSCAR KLEIN, have hereuntoset my hand at WVest Bend ALBERT G. HORN.

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g the Commissioner of Patents,

